Timothy Snyder in conversation with Nora Krug

Professor Timothy Snyder (University of Toronto) speaks with author-illustrator Nora Krug about their collaboration on the graphic version of Professor Snyder's 2017 On Tyranny, a book which has become a 'how-to' guide for resisting contemporary authoritarianism. Moderated by Associate Professor Hang-Sun Kim, Dean of Arts & Vice-Provost at Trinity College, this conversation will provide a timely call to action ahead of the 2026 US mid-term election and, in a time of great uncertainty, emphasize the importance of being active, conscious, and deliberate participants in resistance.

 

 

Timothy Snyder holds the inaugural Chair in Modern European History, supported by the Temerty Endowment for Ukrainian Studies, as a Professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. He is also a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna and the head of the academic advisory council of Ukrainian History Global Initiative. A scholar of the history of Central Europe, Ukraine, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust, Snyder speaks five and reads ten European languages. He is the author or editor of twenty books published in forty languages. Snyder writes for the press on Ukraine, the U.S, authoritarianism, digital politics, health, and education. He has also appeared in documentaries, on television, and as an expert witness before several parliaments. He has received state orders and decorations as well as honorary doctorates. His work has inspired demonstrations, sculpture, posters, punk rock, rap, film, theater, and an opera.

 

Nora Krug is a German-American author and artist. Her books were published in 21 countries, and her illustrations have been recognized with gold and silver medals by both the Society of Illustrators and the NY Art Directors Club. Her visual memoir Heimat /Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home, about WWII and her own German family history, was chosen as a best book of the year by the New York Times, The Guardian, NPR, Kirkus Review, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Boston Globe. Krug is Associate Professor of Illustration at the Parsons School of Design in New York City.

 

Hang-Sun Kim is the Dean of Arts & Vice-Provost at Trinity College and an Associate Professor of German, Teaching Stream in the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures at the University of Toronto. Her scholarly and pedagogical areas of specialization include German foreign language pedagogy, modernist German and Austrian literature, exophonic literature, and literary urban studies.